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7th Chicago Meetup – Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins for Testers

Most of us use AI coding tools in the same way: open the chat, ask for a snippet, copy it, paste it, and move on.
That works. But it’s only the starting point.

At The Test Tribe’s 7th Chicago Meetup, Maneesh Maddala will explore how Skills and plugins can turn AI from a tool you occasionally ask questions to into something that can handle repeatable parts of your testing workflow.

Think of it like your test tooling: configure it once, and it’s ready when you need it.

Event Details

• Date: 27 October 2026
• Time: 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM CDT
• Venue: 10 S Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606

Session – Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins for Testers

Speaker: Maneesh Maddala

This session breaks down Skills and plugins in practical terms and shows where they can fit into a tester’s everyday workflow.

You’ll explore:

• What Skills & Plugins Actually Are – Understand the concepts without the jargon.
• Where They Fit in Testing – See how they can support everyday work such as bug reports, test data, feature exploration, coding, and log analysis.
• How to Get Started – Learn how to pick one small, repeatable task and introduce AI into your workflow without a heavy setup.

How This Meetup Solves Your Problem

• AI coding still feels like a copy-paste exercise? Explore how reusable Skills can take AI beyond one-off prompts.
• Not sure where AI fits into your testing workflow? See practical examples across common QA tasks.
• Don't want a complicated AI setup? Learn how to start small with one repeatable use case.
• Want to make AI useful beyond individual experiments? Understand how plugins can package Skills and tools into something teams can reuse and share.

Why Show Up on 27 October?

• Because asking AI for a code snippet is only the beginning.
• Because reusable AI capabilities can help turn one-off prompts into repeatable workflows.
• Because you’ll see where Skills and plugins can fit into the work testers already do every day.
• Because you don't need to transform your entire workflow at once — you can start with one small thing.
• Because the goal isn't to use more AI. It’s to make the AI you already use more useful.

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